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The Black Cat Vs. The Tell-Tale Heart: Reliability
In my opinion, both narrators are unreliable. Although both narrators are unreliable, I believe that the narrator in "The Black Cat" is is a little more reliable. It's hard to say that one narrator is more reliable when they both have very similar characteristics. Both narrators are delusional and have personal issues. As I read "The Tell-Tale Heart," I learned that the narrator had no friends, he was paranoid, and he probably didn't know the difference between real and unreal. There is no doubt that the narrator in "The Black Cat" has anger management issues. These anger issues led to the murder in a short story. The main reason that I chose the narrator in "The Black Cat" to be more reliable was because I knew more about him. Meanwhile,

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